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NASA's Fermi Satellite Maps Entire Sky, Finds Mysterious Unknown Object
StartsWithABang writes: With the launch of the Fermi satellite in the late 2000s, we began observing the highest energy photons in the Universe — gamma rays — all over the sky, to unprecedented precision. Produced from cosmic ray showers in space when high energy protons run into other, stationary protons, these gamma rays locate point sources from supermassive black holes to supernova remnants to pulsars. There is, additionally, a great correlation between the infrared sky and the gamma ray sky, since the great high-energy background scatters off of the diffuse infrared gas, producing gamma rays there as well. But while a great many sources can be correlated with known structures, Fermi reveals at least one unknown, intense behemoth that emits spectacularly in gamma rays.
That site is completely out of control with trackers and third-party Javascript.
If I was in their web department I would do the honourable thing and commit seppuku.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2016/01/08/the-first-all-sky-extreme-energy-map-reveals-an-unknown-monster-in-our-galaxy-synopsis/
Fuck forbes.
Slashdot should not be accepting stories with links that refuse to work with AdBlock enabled.
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News stories with Forbes links are useless. You can't read them, and nobody's going to turn off their malware/ad blockers for them. At this time, Forbes is always a case of wait-until-someone-finds-another-link and check the comments for said link.
There seems to be some relationship between StartsWithABang and Forbes. All the submissions are to Forbes links.
StartsWithABang appears to be a shill and needs to be banned.
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Or to be slightly less of an ass:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope
http://www.universetoday.com/19879/fermi-telescope-makes-first-big-discovery-gamma-ray-pulsar/
(This one comes with a movie!)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/gr_pulsar.html
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5942/840
(This one is an actual paper!)
"It's just God."
And because he knows when you're using an ad blocker, He won't let you read the article.
The aliens have their drive unit pointed at us as they want to decelerate into our solar system and not fly right through it. Their drive emissions are tremendously blue shifted (into the gamma rays) since they are approaching at a fair percentage of the speed of light (and maybe the drive is outputting gamma rays to begin with).
The best way to verify this would be to look at the spectra of the gamma ray emissions and see if they are gradually being redshifted (slowing down). This would give us an idea of how fast they are decelerating and maybe when they will be arriving. Let's hope that their ship isn't really huge or that it's not pointed directly at us so that their drive won't scour away our atmosphere!
(They could also be using a huge solar sail and what we're seeing is the reflection of our own sun but they'd really have to be moving very very close to c in order for it to be reflected as gamma rays. In that case, since they would be traveling just behind the wavefront they would also have to be right on top of us!).
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Stop promoting Forbes on Slashdot please.
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